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Ask HN: How are you celebrating New Year’s Eve?

8 points by xrayarx 4y ago

Please tell us all about local customs and your own family traditions

bidikburger 4y ago
I'll study differential equations. I have an exam on 4th of Jan
- toast0 4y ago
  Why study for a test that's not until next year? Sorry, I'll see myself out.
zeroCalories 4y ago
I'm alone this year, so I'm going to wander around the city in the evening looking for something interesting, maybe sit in a bar for the ball drop. Let me know if you have any tips for finding stuff.
pigtailgirl 4y ago
-- here in Korea - usually travel to a mountain or beach watch the sun the fist sunrise of the year - so go to bed early --
Pyrodogg 4y ago
In Finland, NYE the single evening of the year on which launching personal fireworks is allowed. I'll probably go out for a walk and try to take some pictures of people doing questionable things. The city is also putting on a concert and fireworks show I plan to watch. However, the weather today has been November-levels of disappointment inducing and the nice snow from early December is melted. :< I love the tradition of fireworks on New Years, as long as people are sensible about it. I don't appreciate them going off right off my balcony. I'd love to spend another New Years in Reykjavik someday. I don't think I've ever seen fireworks like that anywhere else.
gardenhedge 4y ago
I've picked up some Winter Virus so I won't be doing much. This might be the first year I haven't stayed up til midnight on NYE in my life
Jugurtha 4y ago
Country home in the mountains with my family, father, nieces and nephews, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters in law and the presence of my beloved mother. We spend more than New Year's eve here. I know I have my best sleep here. It is incredible, just incredible sleep. I love it because I write code, read, and enjoy the greenery and the sun all while surrounded by my family.
cafard 4y ago
Dinner with a friend a couple of miles away, home probably about 10:30. We will not stay up until midnight. Tomorrow we will have friends over to dinner, and serve a Pennsylvania Dutch New Year's meal of pork and sauerkraut. (My wife is a native of York County, Pennsylvania.)
joshSzep 4y ago
I will hang out with my best friend and play poker together. I would like to be with my wife, but she is a bartender and of course she must work tonight; it's the busiest night of the year for bartenders.
greggarious 4y ago
Catching up on my prestige tv backlog

8 points by xrayarx 4y ago

Please tell us all about local customs and your own family traditions

bidikburger 4y ago

I'll study differential equations. I have an exam on 4th of Jan

toast0 4y ago
Why study for a test that's not until next year? Sorry, I'll see myself out.

zeroCalories 4y ago

I'm alone this year, so I'm going to wander around the city in the evening looking for something interesting, maybe sit in a bar for the ball drop. Let me know if you have any tips for finding stuff.

pigtailgirl 4y ago

-- here in Korea - usually travel to a mountain or beach watch the sun the fist sunrise of the year - so go to bed early --

Pyrodogg 4y ago

In Finland, NYE the single evening of the year on which launching personal fireworks is allowed. I'll probably go out for a walk and try to take some pictures of people doing questionable things. The city is also putting on a concert and fireworks show I plan to watch. However, the weather today has been November-levels of disappointment inducing and the nice snow from early December is melted. :< I love the tradition of fireworks on New Years, as long as people are sensible about it. I don't appreciate them going off right off my balcony. I'd love to spend another New Years in Reykjavik someday. I don't think I've ever seen fireworks like that anywhere else.

gardenhedge 4y ago

I've picked up some Winter Virus so I won't be doing much. This might be the first year I haven't stayed up til midnight on NYE in my life

Jugurtha 4y ago

Country home in the mountains with my family, father, nieces and nephews, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters in law and the presence of my beloved mother. We spend more than New Year's eve here. I know I have my best sleep here. It is incredible, just incredible sleep. I love it because I write code, read, and enjoy the greenery and the sun all while surrounded by my family.

cafard 4y ago

Dinner with a friend a couple of miles away, home probably about 10:30. We will not stay up until midnight. Tomorrow we will have friends over to dinner, and serve a Pennsylvania Dutch New Year's meal of pork and sauerkraut. (My wife is a native of York County, Pennsylvania.)

joshSzep 4y ago

I will hang out with my best friend and play poker together. I would like to be with my wife, but she is a bartender and of course she must work tonight; it's the busiest night of the year for bartenders.

greggarious 4y ago

Catching up on my prestige tv backlog